Failure analysis expert witness performed a failure analysis on a broken grinding wheel. This is part of a product liability case where it was claimed that the wheel broke apart during normal use and injured the user. Examination of the wheel showed that the wheel had been broken by someone clamping it and breaking off […]
Glass Expert Performs a Wine Bottle Failure Analysis
California glass expert performs a failure analysis on a wine bottle failure. In this case the root cause of the failure was due to an impact on the top of the bottle finish. it is apparent that this bottle was hit on the top. This is shown by the photomicrograph.
Glass Failure Analysis Of Bottle Defect
California Glass Expert Witness was assigned to determine the cause of failure of wine bottles at the manufacturing facility. During processing the bottles had a higher than normal failure rate. A root cause failure analysis was performed by the glass failure analysis expert witness. He inspected a large number of whole bottles and removed those […]
Glass Expert Discusses Exploding Tempered Glass
Classic Symmetrical Temper Stresses Three Photomicrographs of Poor Temper Fracture Patterns There has been some concern about glass oven wear made from tempered soda lime glass exploding while in use. A Glass failure analysis expert witness performed fractography on a thick glass jar that had been “tempered”. Because this is a prototype piece, […]
Glass Bottle Failure Analysis
Glass failure analysis expert performed a root cause failure analysis on a bottle failure. The cap on this bottle had not been removed. The failure analysis revealed a manufacturing defect on the bottle interior. On the upper left photo is a 30X photomicrograph of a portion of the origin on the fracture surface. The arrows […]